PreSonus Notion 6 - Notation Software (Boxed) - Manual (Page 74)

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If you have a MIDI keyboard, you have the option of playing anything you want – with any instrument sounds
Notion can reach . With Live Play you can try out a solo on any available instrument (even from non-Notion
sources such as VSTi and MIDI Out) as a solo – or with accompaniment as you play any score . All you do is
select a part in a score, and everything you play will sound for that instrument . If the keyboard is velocity
sensitive, then you can also control volume levels as you play: the harder you strike, the louder the sound .
If you do not hear the instrument, check to ensure your MIDI keyboard is sending MIDI information to Notion through a
different channel than the one you are using for NTempo . You identified this channel in Chapter 1: Set Up MIDI Devices .
Play Alone
You can play an instrument’s sounds, completely free-form .
1 . Open any composition that has a staff with the instrument you want (any sound source) .
2 . Ensure you are in Edit mode .
3 . Click on any measure in the score for the instrument you want to play so a light yellow box appears at that spot in
an editing marker .
4 . Play anything on the MIDI keyboard .
» Notion supplies the sound samples of the instrument you clicked for the keys you press . If you press a note that is
outside of the available samples for the instrument, you hear nothing during the key press .
5 . You are free to click any measure assigned to a different instrument to change to a different instrument sound .
Play Along With a Score
It’s fun to play your choice of instrument with a Notion score supplying the accompaniment .
1 . Open any score .
2 . Ensure you are in Edit mode .
3 . Add a staff and assign the instrument you want . Or, if there is an empty staff already in the score, you can use that .
NOTE: If the staff you select contains notes, then you will hear the staff’s written notation during play, which is not
what you want for soloing . But you are free to select a notated staff if this is exactly what you want (say, for doubling
or experimenting with ideas for a second voice part) .
4 . Click on any measure in the score for the instrument you want to play so a light yellow box appears at that spot in
an editing marker .
5 . Click in the score where you want to start . Then either press the Spacebar or click the button .
» While you hear Notion play the score you are completely free to play anything (within the range of samples
available) on the MIDI keyboard .
6 . You are free to click any empty staff assigned to a different instrument if you want to change to a different
instrument sound .
MIDI Keyboard: Live Play